Psychology Test #1

Terms

infants who ignore or turn away from their mothers when they are reunited following a brief seperation have this type of attachment relationships

Avoidant

when newborns are in this state, their eyes are open but unfocused, and their arms and legs move in bursts of uncoordinated movements

Waking activity

occur when children appear to wake in a panicked state and are often breathing rapidly and perspiring heavily

Night Terrors

Peoples beliefs about their own abilities or talents. This belief may determine when people will imitate others

Self-efficacy

based his social cognitive theory on a more complex view of reward, punishment and imitation

Albert Bandura

include all internal, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and personality factors that affect development

Biological Forces on development

occurs when new experiences are readily incorporated into existing schemes

Assimilation

a prenatal diagnostic technique that involves taking a sample of tissue from part of the placenta

Chorionic Villus Sampling

infants usethis in an unfaniliar or ambiguous situatuion by looking at their parents as if searching for cues that will help then interpret the situatiobn

Social Referencing

the multidisciplinary study of how people change and how they remain the same over time

Human Development

this cry is a more intense version of a basic cry

Mad

Comments that are not intended for other but serve the purpose of hhelping children regulate their behavior

Private Speech

includes physical, behavioral, and psychological features that are the result of the interaction between ones genes and environmental influences

Phenotype

infants who remain upset or angry and are difficult to console when they are reunited with their mothers following a brief separation have this type of attachment relationship

Resistant

prenatal diagnostic technique that involves taking a sample of tissue from part of the placenta

Chorionic Villus Sampling

issue concerned with whether a particular developmental phenomenon follows a smooth progression throughout the life span or a series of abrupt shifts

Continuity-Discontinuity

refers to a consistent style or pattern to an infants behavior

Temperament

Interpersonal, societal, cultural, and ethnic factors that influence development

Sociocultural

Developed the five stages of psychosexual development

Sigmund Freud

Occures in individual who have one dominant allele for normal blood cells and one recessive sickle-cell allele. The individuals typically only have problems when they are seriously deprived of oxygen, such as when they engage in vigorous exercise or when they are at high altitudes

Sickle-Cell Trait

the processes of selection, optimization, and compensation form a system that generates and regulates development and aging

Selective optimization with compensation

suggests that many human behaviors represent successful adaptation to the environment

Evolutionary psychology

chemical instructions are ignored when the allele is combined with a dominant allele

Recessive

Infants who dont seem to understand whats happening when they are separated and subsequently reunited with their mother have this type of attachment relationship

Disorganized

Who came up with the Psychosocial Theory?

Erik Erikson

During this type of sleep, heart rate, breathing, and brain activity are steady, and newborns lie quietly.